Middlebury Acting Company Presents:
Wharton Between the Sheets
by Anne Unduland
May 8-18
Regular Performances: Friday-Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2:00pm
Special Events
- Preview Night: Thursday, May 8 at 7:30pm — All tickets $20 with post-show feedback session
- Talkback: Sunday, May 11 after the 2pm performance with Professor Brett Millier, Reginald L. Cook Professor of American Literature at Middlebury College, discussing Edith Wharton and her work. (see full bio below).
Presented by Middlebury Acting Company, Town Hall Theater's professional resident theater company, delivering playful, intimate and conversation sparking productions since 2001.
Wharton Between the Sheets takes us to Paris in 1908 and brings together Edith Wharton, her dear friend Henry James, her lover Morton Fullerton and her Irish lady’s maid in an eyebrow-raising retelling of Wharton’s actual mid-life romance. A literary and historical banquet of language, sex, mores, and manners, Between the Sheets sparkles with wit while it examines class differences and the complexity of human relationships. More than anything, the play makes us fall in love—with Edith Wharton, with the people in her life, and best of all, with her own glorious writing.
Content Warning
This production includes sexual situations. While not graphic in nature, these scenes address sexuality directly through frank dialogue and bedroom scenes. Recommended for mature audiences.
About Bret Millier
Brett Millier is the Reginald L. Cook Professor of American Literature at Middlebury College in Vermont. She is the author of Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It, (1993) and Flawed Light: American Women Poets and Alcohol (2009), and the associate editor of The Columbia History of American Poetry (1994). She is co-editor of Adrienne Rich: Poetry and Prose (2018) and of Rich’s Selected Poems (2018), and is currently at work on a critical book about poet Ruth Stone. Prof. Millier holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University, and a B.A. from Yale, and has taught at Middlebury since 1986.